We are love.
We are made up of a substance called love. Like the body is made up of fat vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates and proteins. The spirit is made up of love. Love, therefore, in all its forms, is an integral part of the process of life. If you ask yourself a straight question, what is it that you want in life? It will boil down to one thing, love.
Behind every desire there is love. Life cannot move an inch without love. Life has sprung from love, moves in love and will culminate in love. Yet, we see that life is full of problems.
Sometimes, if there is no love, then life seems to be better because then there are no problems. Life comes with a whole load of problems in its wake. If you love objects more, then that becomes greed. If you love people more, it is entanglement. If you love yourself too much, that is egocentric, arrogance. If you love someone else too much, then jealousy soon follows.
Behind jealousy, greed, lust or anger, there is love. Human life cannot be without love.
Your body is like a washing machine. Your mind is like the
clothes you wear. Each lifetime is like one washing cycle; pure water is like
love and knowledge is the detergent. The mind enters the body to get cleansed
and purified but if instead of detergent, you use dirt, then you have dirty
clothes - dirtier than before. You will have to continue putting clothes in the
washing machine to get them cleaned. And the process repeats itself again and
again. Similarly, you will have many more births until you stop repeating the
mistakes that you have been making.
Behind all the ills of society there is love. However, this
love is devoid of language and knowledge. This love is devoid of vision and
wisdom. Love is miserable without wisdom, rather love without wisdom is the
mother of misery. We all want love, not misery. To achieve this, we need to
broaden our vision and awareness. We need to know about ourselves, and we need
to know how to handle our emotions and instincts. Nobody wants to be mad,
angry or hateful - but we have not learnt, or we have not been taught how to handle our negative feelings and tendencies
when they take over our minds or our lives.
The knowledge that unites love and wisdom, the knowledge that uplifts the spirit is spirituality.
